Should their be a heavyweight weight limit like in UFC?

[Earl-Hickey]

Would you be in favour of this?

The problem you are getting is that guys are coming in with RIDICULOUS weight advantages, and also loads of them are fat and don't bother training.

I wouldn't mind them putting a 240lb limit in place

This way, guys like the Klitschkos could still be there, they only have to cut a few lbs, BUT it will get rid of most of the fat guys or at least force them to be in better shape, and also get rid of freaks like Valuev.

I think it'd be good all round

If you look at like Chisora for example, he used to come in around 250lb and suck but since he's got under 240 he is much better, it's be good for Arreola as well, guys like that.

[Sugar Adam Ali]

I wouldn't mind them making a 230 division for guys like adamek, Cunningham, chambers etc...

With such talented super heavys, it's nearly impossible for smaller guys to win the belts

[Redd Foxx]

I'd like to see a 230 class but I can totally understand why it doesn't happen in boxing or the ufc, because there aren't enough skilled guys above 230 to make a complete class. The smaller heavies suffer for a lack of talent in the XXXL league.

[GoldenGloveLove]

All it does is make everybody get fatter to go to the highest division because that's where the money is. It would not help anything but give people a worse division to b*tch about. The best fighters at cruiserweight don't get much for being the best fighters there. That's why they move up.

[Black Barty]

There is already a division for small heavies. It's called cruiserweight. If they aren't willing to get their a.ss in shape and make the CW limit, it's their problem.

I could hear the argument for raising the CW limit to, say, 210 or 220 pounds, but introducing a HW limit? No.

[soul_survivor]

There is already a division for small heavies. It's called cruiserweight. If they aren't willing to get their a.ss in shape and make the CW limit, it's their problem.

I could hear the argument for raising the CW limit to, say, 210 or 220 pounds, but introducing a HW limit? No.

Agreed!

Noway should they have a limit on the heavyweight division, it's not the weight that makes some of the bigger heavies so unbeatable, it's the fact that the so called smaller guys aren't that skilled but skills beat size almost every time.

Look at a middle aged Holy beating the biggest heavyweight in history or Haye for that matter.

Look at how good Chagaev did for a while and Adamek was pretty competitive at heavy too. The argument is ******.

[SN!PER]

It's actually a disadvantage to be too big in boxing. Speed, balance and coordination are much more important than size. The human body is not meant to be too large. Athletes who are the most suitable for boxing and in good, natural health should never weigh more than 250. Most of the best heavyweights of all time were 6'3 or less and 220 lbs. or less in their primes: Muhammad Ali, Sonny Liston, Jack Johnson, Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano, Larry Holmes, George Foreman, Jack Dempsey, Mike Tyson.

[toshmurph]

I wouldn't mind them making a 230 division for guys like adamek, Cunningham, chambers etc...

With such talented super heavys, it's nearly impossible for smaller guys to win the belts

There is a weight class for them, it's called Cruiserweight!

[billeau2]

the same ignorant things get said so many times eventually these things are believed....and it is ridiculous because we have data.

There is absolutely no proof that extra size above just North of 200 helps a fighter in the heavyweight division. As a matter of fact one of the few things that works in boxing is when the heavyweight division gets too weak a cruiser, a blown up ___ weight can come along and shame all by taking the crown.

What people fail to realize is that the sample of big men that comprise heavyweight caliber fighters has not changed much at all in size....People say that Johnson came in at 190, or Marciano fought at under 200....Well heres the problem with that....Fighters train for certain conditions. For example, if Sam peter was training to fight a 15 round fight and be succesful, he would be a well chisled 210 at most! ALL these guys walked around big...Jack Johnson was around 205 most of his career! The difference in what a fighter CHOSE to fight at and a range of what a fighter COULD come in at are two distinct things. In other words if you took all the heavyweight fighters as a pool since around 1890 or so, put them in a room together, observing them as they walked around....NOT WHAT WEIGHT THEY CHOSE TO FIGHT AT!, you would see a room full of big men...some would look bigger because of reach & height, some would not lookl so big because their weight was bone density....You would also see very big and not so big fighters....But there would not be a select group of modern, hyper muscled fighters from modern times that dwarfed the rest.

What we are talking about is the weight fighters CHOOSE to fight at in an unlimited division and it is illogical and ****** to have a heavier unlimited division based on assumptions that are false

[Someone88]

I don't think the weight limit should be in the UFC and it shouldn't be in Boxing. Weight at some point doesn't matter as much in both sports.